The single star is because the setup is fine — almost great, even. Estranged father and son (Will and Jaden Smith) survive a crash landing on a hostile planet. Dad's injured, and so it's the son who must retrieve an emergency beacon from a distant chunk of wreckage. Technology will …
Tessa is no longer the sweet, simple, good girl she was when she met Hardin. She begins to carve out a future far from everything and everyone she knows, a future she never thought she would have. Nor is Hardin the cruel, moody boy she fell so hard for. Hardin …
The final chapter of the story of Tessa Young (Josephine Langford) and Hardin Scott (Hero Fiennes-Tiffin) is revealed.
The final chapter of the story of Tessa Young (Josephine Langford) and Hardin Scott (Hero Fiennes-Tiffin) is revealed.
Two far-apart married couples in Montreal, a middle-aged one composed of a randy handyman and a boozy former B-movie actress (Nick Nolte, Julie Christie) and a yuppie one composed of a sexually ambiguous workaholic and a child-craving housewife (Jonny Lee Miller, Lara Flynn Boyle), switch partners through the sheerest coincidence …
Collective New York phobias -- fear of involvement, fear of strangers, fear of break-ins -- are enacted by way of a comic nightmare in which an Upper East Side word processor, lured by the prospect of a hot date, gets marooned in SoHo without a dime (well, actually with ninety-seven …
Fit-for-TV digital documentary on a bushelful of ex-convicts exonerated through DNA evidence after five, ten, twenty, twenty-five years behind bars. The people are interesting to meet, and their stories, although a little one-note, healthily undermine our faith in the justice system. Directed by Jessica Sanders.
Japanese travellers to the Next World are detained in a nondescript institutional facility -- a mundane Purgatory -- where they must select one (and only one) memory from their lives to carry with them into eternity. A shaky premise (only one?) is shaken further by the prosaic documentary treatment: talking-heads …
Japanese travellers to the Next World are detained in a nondescript institutional facility -- a mundane Purgatory -- where they must select one (and only one) memory from their lives to carry with them into eternity. A shaky premise (only one?) is shaken further by the prosaic documentary treatment: talking-heads …
A woman discovers a shocking secret after the unexpected death of her husband. Direcetd by Aleem Khan, starring Joanna Scanlan, Nathalie Richard, and Talid Ariss.
The opening long take and the quietly unexpected off-camera appearance by the film’s shamefaced lead character set the tone for this powerful family melodrama. For most of its running time, director and co-writer Joachim Lafosse gives the impression that he’s drilled a hole into the side of a married couple’s …
Keira Knightley, Jason Clarke, and Alexander Skarsgård star in a romantic drama set in post WWII Germany. James Kent (Testament of Youth) directs.
Living most of his adult life in Chicago, Franek (Ireneusz Czop), developed a fondness for throwing the word “Yid” around. But upon returning to Poland after a 20 year absence, Franek discovers the town he grew up in harbors a bulwark of genuine, old-school anti-Semites. Schindler’s Light. Writer-director Wladyslaw Pasikowski’s …
Writer-director Jill Soloway digs into the psyche of the happy homemaker's shadow self, the miserable mommy. (When all your needs are met, that's when you notice you're unhappy.) Rachel (Kathryn Hahn) is uninterested in her child, unmoved by her husband, and unconsoled by her friends. On a joyless lark, she …
A conversation between Malaysian director Tsai Ming-liang and his long-time leading man, Lee Kang-sheng. In Mandarin with English subtitles.